Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Console war


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Davewild (talk) 20:00, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Console war

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Article seems to exist entirely to link the real world phenomenon with the fictional Hyperdimension Neptunia universe. Salient conent from those sections should be merged to those articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OMPIRE (talk • contribs) 15:39, 7 July 2015‎ (UTC)


 * It is better to use Afd than edit warring. However, please note that everyone in Talk:Console war do not agree with your action. Furthermore, the concept of "Console War" in Hyperdimension Neptunia is directly based on real world competition of PlayStation, Wii, Xbox etc, so they are very related to co-exist in the same article. --Cartakes (talk) 14:44, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * That article is the Hyperdimension Neptunia article — Preceding unsigned comment added by OMPIRE (talk • contribs) 15:46, 7 July 2015‎ (UTC)


 * Keep, your rationale -- assuming this is OMPIRE -- is confusing and objectively wrong. Claims you make are easily refuted by simply searching for word strings, so in no way is the "conent" the same. This should be the end of the matter, Wikipedia is not up to your personal whims, but based on policies and consensus. JesseRafe (talk) 15:08, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep, OMPIRE was trying to blank or redirect the page without any discussions or consensus in the talk page. He used to claim it was "entirely duplicate content" from various pages, but this is obviously not the case as also pointed out by other editors. --Cartakes (talk) 15:24, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: Note that this page is malformatted and was not properly submitted, so does not appear at Articles for deletion/Log/2015 July 7. - David Biddulph (talk) 16:16, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * It seems so. I will try to fix it myself instead (it appears to work now). --Cartakes (talk) 22:23, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to History of video games. Trivialist (talk) 22:31, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Video game console. Trivialist (talk) 01:30, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Reply: The current article focuses on the concept of "console war" itself, and the article History of video games obviously does not cover them. Also, how about the section "In Popular Culture" (or so)? It really does not belong to History of video games at all. (Now you change the redirect target, which shows how uncertain you are with the redirect target itself) --Cartakes (talk) 22:37, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't see that there needs to be a separate article for "console wars"; it seems to have been created mostly to talk about Hyperdimension Neptunia. Trivialist (talk) 01:28, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Just Google for "Console war" -wikipedia (with quotes around "Console war"), there are 528,000 results. Obviously it is a commonly-used term, and a separate article explaining the term itself is certainly useful. The use of this term in Hyperdimension Neptunia series is directly based on the real world competition of PlayStation, Wii, Xbox etc, which is an example of the *extension* of this term into popular culture. An article explaining both the concept of "console war" in real world and the extension of this term in popular culture such as in Hyperdimension Neptunia series definitely makes much sense. --Cartakes (talk) 01:40, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep, given that the term is widely used within videogame literature to describe the commercial competition between system manufacturers. As a second fallback, a merge with History of video games might also work. -- benlisquare T•C•E 06:08, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Strong keep, a major famous aspect of video gaming. J 1982 (talk) 16:01, 15 July 2015 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.